B2 Staunton, Dally News Leader, Saturday, June 6, 1987 sparkles in Met win 3 A second on Lee's single and scored on a single to center by Tony Fernandez. Tigers 4, Red Sox 2 In Boston, Pat Sheridan hit a homer to lead off the seventh inning and four Detroit pitchers combined on a six-hitter, leading the Tigers to a 4-2 victory over Boston and ending the Red Sox' three-game winning streak. Sheridan, who had struck out in his two previous at bats, broke a 2-2 tie by hitting a 2-1 pitch just inside the right field foul pole off Al Nipper for his third homer. The home run gave Detroit just its second victory in six games. Jeff Robinson, 4-2, allowed both Boston runs on five hits over 7 2-3 innings and improved his record in his last four starts to 3-0.
Mike Henneman pitched to one batter in the eighth, allowing a single to Dwight Evans, before Mark Thurmond finished the inning. Eric King pitched the ninth for his third save. Nipper, 4-5 overall but 1-5 in his last six decisions, retired the first 12 batters he faced. Then Alan Trammell opened the fifth with a double that extended his hitting streak to 11 games. He took third on a groundout and scored on Dar-rell Evans' two out double.
Chet Lemon then singled home Evans, giving the Tigers a 2-0 lead. Rangers 15, Twins 8 In Minneapolis, Pete O'Brien hit two home runs, including his first career grand slam, and tied a club record with seven RBI, leading the Texas Rangers over Minnesota 15-8 and extending the Twins' losing streak to three. Greg Harris, 2-4, making his first start since September 24, 1984, when he was San Diego, allowed seven hits over five innings for the victory. Bert Blyleven, 4-5, allowed five runs on six hits, including two homes over three innings. Texas, who had 20-hits in a 14-3 victory over Chicago Wednesday, had 17 hits and 10 walks off four Minnesota pitchers.
American League East Dtrlsloa Pet CB ooden NEW YORK (AP) Dwight Gooden, making his first major-league start since cocaine rehabilitation, pitched four-hit ball for 6 2-3 innings Friday night and led the charged-up New York Mets past the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1. Throwing freely and easily, Gooden gave the noisy sellout crowd of 51,402 what it came to see. He powered strike three past Barry Bonds leading off the game and showed a good fastball and sharp-breaking curve. Gooden struck out five, walked four and did not allow a hit until Andy Van Slyke's soft fly dropped in front of late-breaking right fielder Darryl Strawberry in the third for a single. Gooden threw 121 pitches, 75 for strikes.
He was showered with a standing ovation when he took the mound to start the game there were no boos and he pawed at the rubber while the cheers continued. He tipped his cap in tribute to the fans and to the dozens of banners welcoming him back to Shea Stadium, and then went to work. Once he started, he did not appear nervous and seemed unaffected from his long layoff and 28-day stay in a drug treatment center that ended April 29. There had been much debate among top management about when, where and against whom Gooden should make his first start. That planning paid off as he looked comfortable at home and improved his career record to 7-0 against Pittsburgh, the only major-league team that has never beaten him, and 35-7 at Shea.
The Mets, who have struggled minus their silent leader, seemed equally excited about his return. They scored two runs in the first inning, aided by a pair of Pittsburgh errors, and made two stellar defensive plays to keep Gooden ahead. In the third inning, after Pittsburgh scored on a walk, Van Slyke's single and a sacrifice fly by Johnny Ray, Sid Bream lined a drive deep to left-center. Left fielder Mookie Wilson and Lenny Dykstra sprinted after the ball and hit heads in a collision, but Wilson hung on for a marvelous catch. Wilson and Dykstra spent several minutes lying on the field before walking off, their faces bleeding.
In the seventh, with the Mets leading 3-1, Mike LaValliere singled with one out and pinch-hitter Bobby Bonilla followed with a drive off the right-field wall. Strawberry allowed the ball to carom past him, but recovered in time to throw a perfect strike to catcher Gary Carter, who tagged out LaValliere in a hard collision. Gooden then walked pinch-hitter John Cangelosi, and Mets Manager Davey Johnson replaced Gooden with Jesse Orosco, who went on to get his 11th save. Phillies 7, Expos 6 In Philadelphia, Von Hayes hit his second home run of the game to snap a seventh-inning tie and gave the Philadelphia Phillies a 7-6 victory over the Montreal Expos. The Phillies took a 6-4 lead on a Padres 10, Braves 3 In Atlanta, Eric Show pitched a five-hitter for his seventh straight victory over Atlanta and Tony Gwynn and Bruce Bochy homered as the San Diego Padres beat the Braves 10-3 to snap a three-game losing streak.
Show improved his lifetime record against the Braves to 9-1, including a 4-0 mark at Atlanta Stadium. Show, 2-7, snapped a personal six-game losing streak with the victory. He walked five and struck out four. Gwynn, who entered the game with 10 hits in his last 14 at-bats, hit his fourth homer of the season over the right-field fence in the first inning and singled twice. Bochy hit his second homer of the season over the left-field fence in the fourth, scoring John Kruk, who had singled.
Marvell Wynne doubled and scored on Kruk's single in the seventh. Astros 6, Giants 1 In Houston, Mike Scott, who had to leave his last start with back spasms, allowed two hits in seven innings, struck out 13 and retired the last 19 batters he faced to lead the Houston Astros to a 6-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Scott, who suffered back spasms and was removed after five innings on May 29 against St. Louis, gave up singles to Chris Speier and Will Clark, with Speier taking third, to start the game. After Jeffrey Leonard struck out, Scott's wild pitch allowed Speier to score the Giants' only run.
After Candy Maldonado popped out, Scott walked Chili Davis before Bob Melvin Hied to left. The Giants did not get another baserunner against Scott, who struck out the side in the fifth and seventh innings and had two strikeouts in the second, third and fourth innings. Larry Anderson pitched the final two innings for the Astros and allowed a single by Leonard. AMERICAN LEAGUE Blue Jays 6, Orioles 2 In Toronto, Jimmy Key pitched a five-hitter and George Bell, Cecil Fielder and Jesse Barfield all homered, pacing the Toronto Blue Jays to their third straight victory, 6-2 over the Baltimore Orioles. Key, 7-3, struck out six and walked three for his third complete game.
It was Key's first victory over Baltimore since Aug. 5, 1984. Baltimore rookie Eric Bell, 5-3, allowed five runs on six hits in 2 2-3 innings as the Orioles lost their sixth game in their last seven. The Jays scored four in the third inning when they sent nine batters to the plate. With the game tied 1-1, Barfield led off with an infield single and Bell followed with his 18th homer to left, increasing his league-leading RBI total to 46.
Fielder followed with another homer, hitting a 3-2 pitch high off the foul pole in left for his fifth homer. Two outs later, Ernie Whitt walked, and after Mark Williamson replaced Eric Bell, Whitt took it ape BACK IN ACTION New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden throws his first pitch as a Met this season, against the Pittsburgh Pirates Friday at Shea Stadium in New York. Gooden is back after undergoing drug rehabilitation. (AP Laserphoto) Mets signing Seaver NEW YORK (AP) The New York Mets, whose pitching staff has been depleted by injuries, will sign former ace Tom Seaver on Saturday, the Associated Press has learned. Seaver, currently a free agent, will return to the Mets for the third time In his career.
The signing is expected to take place at 10:30 a.m. EDT, three hours before the Mets' game against Pittsburgh. Seaver, 42, has a 311-205 lifetime record. He has not pitched since last August, when a knee injury finished his season with the Boston Red Sox. The Mets began negotiating with Seaver last month after Bob Ojeda and David Cone were lost for the year with injuries and Rick Aguil-era was sidelined for at least eight weeks.
Mets General Manager Frank Cashen declined to confirm or deny Seaver's signing Friday night. Instead, he just said "yes" when asked if the Mets were still trying to add a pitcher. The Mets had considered signing Seaver on Friday, the same day Dwight Gooden made his first major-league start since undergo Celtics two-run homer by Rick Schu in the sixth but Tim Wallach's two-run homer in the seventh tied the score, 6-6. Hayes led off the bottom of the inning with his fifth homer, a drive into the right-field seats off reliever Andy McGaffigan, 0-1. Cardinals 5, Cuba 1 In Chicago, Greg Mathews pitched a two-hitter over 7 1-3 innings and John Morris singled in two runs as the St.
Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 5-1. A crowd of 36,818 many of the fans making the trip from St. Louis saw the Cardinals increase their lead to three games over Chicago in the National League East with their second straight victory over the Cubs. Mathews, 3-4, struck out six and walked four. He was recalled from Class AAA Louisville on May 30.
Todd Worrell finished the game for the Cardinals. Scott Sanderson, 3-2, fanned 10 batters one shy of his career high against the Mets in 1982 but he allowed 11 hits in 5 1-3 innings. Eight consecutive St. Louis outs from the second to the fourth inning were strikeouts. On a day when winds were blowing in toward the plate, sometimes at 20 mph, Chicago took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.
Jody Davis doubled home Bob Dernier, who led off the game with a walk and stole second. St Louis tied the score 1-1 in the fourth when Tony Pena tripled under the glove of a diving Dernier in center field and Morris singled. In the sixth, singles by Terry Pendleton, Pena and Morris put St. Louis ahead. With two outs in the eighth, Mathews and Vince Coleman walked off reliever Drew Hall.
Third baseman Keith Moreland misplayed Ozzie Smith's grounder, allowing Mathews to score and Tom Herr and Jack Clark followed with run-scoring singles for a 5-1 lead. Reds 8, Dodgers 6 In Cincinnati, Eric Davis, hitless in his last 17 at bats, hit a two-out, three-run homer in the seventh inning as the Cincinnati Reds rallied from a 6-0 deficit to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-6. With the Reds trailing 6-5, Davis hit an 0-1 pitch from Ken Howell, 2-2, over the right-field wall for his 20th homer of the season, tops in the major leagues. The Dodgers took a 6-0 lead after four innings. Steve Sax singled off Bill Gullickson to open the game, stole second and scored on John Shelby's double.
Shelby went to third on a passed ball and scored on Pedro Guerrero's sacrifice fly. The Dodgers made it 5-0 in the third when pitcher Rick Honeycutt singled. Sax homered, Guerrero and Mike Marshall singled and Franklin Stubbs hit an RBI double, chasing Gullickson. The Dodgers added a run in the fourth when Marshall doubled to left, scoring Shelby. Marshall extended his hitting streak to 10 games.
Staunton's started its comeback in the fifth when Mike Sabo belted a solo homer, his fourth of the year, making the score 3-2. Then in the sixth, the roof caved in on the hosting Royals. The Braves used four hits and four Winchester errors to score five times and take a 7-2 lead. Bobby Rivell opened the sixth with a double and Mike Moberg followed with a bunt single, moving Rivell to third. An error on Keith LeClair's grounder scored Rivell and Thomas Duf fin's single chased Moberg home, giving the Braves a 4-3 lead.
LeClair scored on a single by Ingram and Duff in raced home on a sacrifice fly by Sabo. Ingram scored the final run of the inning when Winchester's rightfielder dropped Joe Ross' fly ball, making the score 7-3. Staunton continued to pummel Winchester pitching as it added two more runs in the seventh. Moberg and LeClair opened the inning with singles and Moberg scored on Duffin's ground out. LeClair scored Staunton's ninth run when Ingram doubled to the wall.
Moberg blasted a three-homer in the eighth, making the score 12-3 and the Braves' added one in the ninth when Ingram blasted an Men Softball Tournament Sponsored By Barren Ridge Ruritan Club For Area 5 Special Olympics June 12s 13. 14 Double Elimination Entry Fee: $75.00 Call Larry Wade 363-5050 Or Darrell Riegel 943-0472 mm my ing cocaine rehabilitation. The team thought Seaver's signing might help diffuse some of the pressure surrounding Gooden's comeback, but decided to wait until Saturday morning to finalize Seaver's return. "There's a question whether I can pitch or not. You've got to go out and prove it," Seaver saiot when rumors started to circulate, that he might rejoin the Mets last week a 4 1 Seaver became a free agent when he did not re-sign with the Red Sox after last year.
The three time Cy Young winner has a 2.86; career earned run average for 20 major-league seasons. He has 3,640 lifetime strikeouts. Seaver began last year with the Chicago White Sox and was traded to Boston on June 29. He had a 7-13 record overall, including 5-7, with a 3.80 ERA for the Red Sox, Seaver did not pitch in the American League playoffs or the World Series loss to the Mets because of. a knee injury.
Seaver began his big-league career with the Mets in 1967 and won the National League Cy award with them in 1969, 1973 and 1975. The 1983 Philadelphia 76ers-: were 12-1, including a champion ship series sweep of the defending-. Lakers. Now, with all but the first round of the playoffs decided by a best-of-seven format, it takes 15-victories to win the title. The Lakers already are 13-1.
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Cooper also had eight of his nine assists in the second period, tying another NBA finals record. Johnson also had eight of his 20 assists In the third period. Cooper, who has 27 3-po inters in the Lakers' 14 playoff games, is the all-time playoff record-holder with 68 long-range baskets, 11 more than Bird. His six 3-pointers in a single game was two more than Boston's Scott Wedman had in Game 1 against the Lakers in 1985. "Second to the offensive rebound, the 3-pointer is the biggest psychological shot in the game," Lakers Coach Pat Riley said.
"A couple of years ago, 3-pointers were a dead play on this team," Cooper said. "Slowly but surely, Coach Riley has let us shoot it on a regular basis." The Lakers' victory Thursday night was so decisive that Forum fans started chanting "Sweep" in the fourth quarter. If the Lakers do it, they will complete the most successful postseason run in NBA history. other double, scoring Duffin and making the score 13-3. The Staunton bats are red-hot as several Braves' hitters are in the midst of torrid hitting streaks.
Sabo's two RBI gives him a total 13 in just five games while Moberg's homer was his third in the last two games. However, the Braves' hottest hitter is Ingram. The Staunton catcher was 4-for-5 against the Royals, giving him 10 hits in 13 at bats for a lofty .770 batting average. The win moves Staunton past the .500 mark for the first time this year with a 3-2 record. Staunton hosts Madison tonight at Moxie Stadium as southpaw Brian Barnes will be on the mound.
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Flores scored on a single by Joe Wardlow, and Wardlow later scored on a single by Donnie Poplin. Staunton scored its first run in the second when Clint Fairey and Jeff Ingram singled, putting runners at the comers. The Braves scored their run on a double steal. Ingram was thrown out at second on the play, but Fairey raced home, making the score 2-1. The Royals increased their lead in the third as it touched Bottomly for another run.
With one out. Poplin doubled and Jon Anderson worked Bottomly for a walk. Skip Nelloms singled to load the bases, and Reggie Sanders followed with a sacrifice fly to score Poplin, making the score 3-1. That would be the final tally for the Royals against Bottomly as the lefthander shut out the hosts for the next four and one-third innings. Bottomly finally tired in the eighth and David Sammons recorded the final five outs, giving up one-run in the ninth on Poplin's double.
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